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Right now, QR Code is really so popular. Maybe you can find it in the corner of a TV show, a street, a shop store, an outdoor ads or even on somebody's neck. At first, we should know that QR codes are used to reveal more information about a product, service, event or person. Generally, they direct the scanning device to a special URL, video, coupon, event page, email address, or other digital signpost with more details and content. If you are interested in the QR Code and really want to know what exactly hide in it, a QR scanner app is necessary to you! And today I will introduce you 5 best free QR Code scanner for Android.
5. ScanLife Barcode & QR Reader (Rated: 4.0)

Scan QR & UPC barcodes to discover information, prices, & coupons in seconds.
Introducing the all NEW ScanLife that helps you discover and share information from the world around you.

ScanLife turns your camera phone into a super-fast, all-in-one QR Code and barcode scanner to help you discover information from the things you see every day. Just scan to help you save money and get more information from products, magazines, displays and more.

Features:

• See prices from over 25 different retailers to help find the best deal
• See local prices to find a product near you (US only)
• Read reviews from people that have bought the product on Amazon & Best Buy
• See related deals & coupons which you can redeem or save
• Get related accessory ideas that go with the product you scanned
• You can even buy many of the product in a few clicks - perfect when you need to reorder from home or save a few bucks.
• Scan food items to see nutritional information & ingredients to help you pick healthy options (US only)

4. Scan (Rated: 4.3)

Scan is the fastest & most user-friendly QR Code and barcode scanner available.
Scan is completely free. There are no "lite version" restrictions. It's just simple QR Code and barcode scanning the way it should be. Open the app, point the camera at the code and you’re done! No need to take a photo or press a "scan" button like other apps.

When scanning a QR Code, if the code contains a website URL, you'll automatically be taken to the site. If the code just contains text, you'll immediately see it. For other formats such as phone numbers, email addresses, or contact info, you will be prompted to take the appropriate action.

Features:

• History logs and displays of all of your past scans in a list or on a map
• Customize how Scan works in Settings
• Login to your Scan.me account to sync your scan history across web, Android, and iOS
• Touch-focus camera (requires autofocus)
• Forward-facing light for low-light scanning (requires flash)

RedLaser is a secret weapon for the smart shopper – scan barcodes or search for items to make sure you have all the information you need, including product details, ratings, reviews and pricing.

Features:

• Scan all major retail barcodes (including UPC, EAN, UPC-E, and EAN-8) and QR codes
• Search for prices from thousands of online retailers for millions of products
• Search hundreds of local retailers to compare prices, find the nearest locations, and even check out books at the library
• See all your local results and stores on a map
• Keyword, Voice, and Image recognition search to find the best deal, even when you don’t have a barcode handy
• Get product descriptions, reviews, and nutritional information to help you make the right decision
• Create personalized QR codes with your info, contacts, website’s URL, and more with our powerful QR code engine
• Create shopping, wish, and gift lists to share with friends and family via Facebook, email, or SMS. Also great for archiving your book, CD, DVD, and even your wine collection!

Barcode Scanner Android App is great! It allows you to scan most product bar codes in 1D (UPC, EAN, etc.) and 2D formats (QR Code) to search Google for product results. You can even search for words in a book when using this app.

The cool thing about scanning QR Codes is the wealth of information and many applicable uses in the tiny cryptic messages. QR Codes can store calendar events, contact information, email addresses, Geo location, phone numbers, SMS text messages, plain text, and URLs.

1. QR Droid (Rated: 4.4)

Use your camera to scan a QR code in a magazine and watch a video immediately! Create a code from a Contact or Bookmark in your phone, let a friend scan it & get your info transferred!

Features:

• Scan any QR code from your camera, browser, SD card, or image.
• Create QR codes in less than a second from your contacts, bookmarks, and installed applications.
• Use codes for calendar events, phone numbers, geo-locations, SMS text messages, emails, websites, video... or any block of text that you want.
• Give codes any color, categorize by color, and create short URLs for your generated images.
• Share installed apps with others by generating QR links.

The calendar is an important tool in our life to remind us about the work, outside, make call or other events. And this app is indispensable for the business men. The Android default calendar app is good for some  people. But the functions are too simple to arrange some busy guys' life. Here I will introduce you 5 best free Android calendar apps for replacements.

5. Business Calendar Free (rated: 4.5)

Business Calendar might cost the most in our selection, but we feel its time-proven functionality is making it worth it. It comes with a great and smooth interface where you just pinch to zoom in and out. The widgets along with it are also great and informative. It, of course, syncs with online calendars like Google. The list of advanced functions starts with searching for events, a one-tap access to calendars and tons of options for recurring events.

Features:

• smooth scroll- and zoomable multi-day view (1-14 days)
• graphical and textual presentation
• month, agenda, day and event view
• quickly fade in/out calendars using the favorite bar
• search function
• configurable widgets in different sizes for month, week, agenda and day view (3 design themes for each widget type)
• easy switching between timeline bars and event titles in month view
• intuitive new handling option: just move your finger over some days of interest in month view to open them in the multi-day view
• quick day overview when adding a new event
• many options for recurrent events (e.g. to add a recurrent event that takes place every other week on Tuesday and Thursday)
• context-sensitive help system to optimize your work with Business Calendar

4. Smooth Calendar (Rated: 4.5)

This app is a simple to use, clean, highly configurable screen widget for the built-in calendar application. Smooth Calendar sets itself apart from widget-only apps by allowing you to select only the calendars you want to display and allowing you to very granularly configure the display.

Features:

• Many different options and features, can show up to six different events
• Smooth Calendar has one of the highest satisfaction rates currently off all android widgets, currently a 4.5 rating on the android market.
• Can schedule events up to one year into the future!
• Much more useful than the default android calendar program.
• Ability to sync up with your Google calendar on your desktop computer is painless and easy.

3. Simple Calendar Widget (Rated: 4.6)

A minimalist-looking but high configurable calendar widget. Bear in mind that this isn't an app (you won't find it on your app drawer): it's a widget so you need to long-press on your screen > widgets > simple calendar widget to set it.

Features:

• Different skins
• Possibility to choose which calendars to show
• Font style and background customization
• Show or hide current day of month
• Possibility to choose which application to open
• Support of tasks using Dato GTasks or Astrid and more...

2. Jorte Calendar (Rated: 4.4)

Jorte is a personal organizer (calendar) application, developed with a particular emphasis on making its interface resemble as much as possible the look and feel of a real paper organizer. With an appealing appearance and ease of use.

Whether it is for personal purposes or for business, Jorte is a helpful application to assist you to manage your daily schedule. With plenty of widgets types available, it can also be used as a calendar.

Features:

• Can be displayed in either monthly or weekly views. Its display can be rotated sideways.
• See at a glance important events displayed in red, change the background color for the day and configure many more options in order to create your personal calendar style.
• Change the start day of the week, import national holidays data and set your own optional holidays.
• When managing tasks, you can change the color of an important task to be displayed in red and change the order in which tasks are displayed on the task list.
• Synchronize your tasks with Google Tasks.
• Data from schedules and tasks can be either imported from or exported to a CSV file.
• Can be controlled using Google Voice Search and it can display Google Maps when entering a place.
• Comes with many functions available such as synchronization with Google Calendar and support for a wide array of widgets.

1. MyCalendar Free (Rated: 4.6)

MyCalendar Free is a simple reminder application that takes note of your friends' birthdays and sets up notification so you don't forget to wish them a happy day.

First of all, select the friends from your contacts' list and from your Facebook, which will be imported. The app includes a calendar that lets you know visually which are the birthdays coming so you have time prepare presents, surprise parties and cards.

Features:

• Import birthdays from Facebook
• Add birthdays of all contacts from your phone and add custom birthdays
• Customizable reminder settings: delivers notifications straight to your iPhone)
• Easily message your friends and wish them "Happy Birthday " along with custom message with just one click!

Wish you have a better life with one of those apps. Thanks for reading my post. And sorry for AFK again.

I'm not a coffee drinker, but I do enjoy tea. Usually that would be black tea, although I've expanded my tastes to include green tea and the occasional flowery teas you find at a Chinese restaurant. I buy my tea at any of the large "marts" here in Seoul, but yesterday I happened to notice a large selection of tea at the very back of a local Mom-and-Pop grocery store. Since I had just run out of tea, I searched for some on the shelves.

Now, I've noticed before that the black teas are less available (popular?) than others - usually green tea, barley and corn tea being the most available. But what I found at this local shop was incredible. So surprising in fact, I took the one to record the myriad choices which were available at this tiny corner grocer.

1. 마차 sweet potato tea
2. 쑥차 mugwort tea
3. 대추차 jujube tea
4. 칡차 arrowroot
5. 호두율무차 walnut & job's tears tea
6. 호두아몬드율무차 ditto, +almonds
7. 단호박차 pumpkin tea
8. 쌍화차 herb tea
9. 생강차 ginger tea (x2)
10. 천마차 gastrodia elata tea
11. 둥굴래차 Solomon's seal tea (x3)
12. 보리차 barley tea (x4)
13. 옥수수차 corn (silk?) tea (x4)
14. 녹차 green tea (x4)
15. 현미 녹차 green tea w/brown rice (x3)
16. 메밀차 buckwheat tea
17. 마테처 roast Yerba mate tea (x2)

That's a total 32 brands of teas, of which 17 different varieties are available. And not a single black tea in the whole lot!

Many of these I've never heard of. For example, I didn't know they made tea from aquatic mammals. But seafood is so popular here in Korea, I'm not surprised to find they use seals to make tea. I won't even guess what a Yerba mate is.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining, as I can easily get black tea. To the contrary, I think this is wonderful. I remember The Stumbling Mother, a tea connoisseur whose own cupboards were home to 762 varieties of tea, was quite impressed with the variety of teas here in Korea during her visit here in 2007. She would have been delighted to find 17 teas at a tiny local shop.

Speaking of black tea, red tea as it's known in Asia, I've recently been drinking this tea from Antarctic adventurer Captain Robert Scott's ill-fated 1910 Terra Nova expedition. I believe it has been re-blended to match the original, although they say remains of the original blend still exist in tea chests at Hut Point and Cape Evans in the Antarctica.




I do wonder about this scarcity of black teas in Korea. While no tea expert, I associate teas with Asia. Curious why it seems uncommon here in Korea. But whether you like your walnut and job's tears tea with or without almonds, Korea is the place to find a wide selection of tea.